Great idea, with suggestions for day trips (four or five suggested tasting rooms in a region), and profiles of dozens of wineries. The search engine and GPS-tagged maps are very useful.

They are, of course, working on an iPhone app. It will use the new “MapKit” feature in iPhone OS 3.0 to show 650 wineries along with your current location. Sure to be a boon to regulars and tourists alike.

Awesome animation with Post-It notes. The soundtrack is the same one Mac OS X 10.5 uses on first boot (Röyksopp's Eple ).

LGBT couples working for the Federal government are now discriminated against less:

[M]y Administration has identified a number of areas in which greater equality can be achieved under existing law by extending to the same-sex partners of Federal employees many of the same benefits already available to the spouses of heterosexual Federal employees.

The President also comes out against the atrocious Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA):

Unfortunately, my Administration is not authorized by existing Federal law to provide same-sex couples with the full range of benefits enjoyed by heterosexual married couples. That’s why I stand by my long-standing commitment to work with Congress to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act. It’s discriminatory, it interferes with States’ rights, and it’s time we overturned it.

And he plans more equality:

I am also proud to announce my support for an important piece of legislation introduced in both Houses of Congress last month — the Domestic Partners Benefits and Obligations Act of 2009. This legislation will extend to the same-sex partners of Federal employees the same benefits already enjoyed by the opposite-sex spouses of Federal employees.

Small battles lead to big changes. Slow but steady wins the race.

Teller (of Penn and) talks about how illusion is all about fooling the brain, including a fake window in his hallway.

You didn’t see the illusion because you weren’t expecting one. You assumed I wasn’t fucking with your head and that this hallway is actually a normal hallway. Those assumptions work great until you walk into a wall.

The videos with the story are also great, bringing back memories of seeing them in Vegas several months ago. I’d definitely see them again.

As a technology demo of the future of computing (rather than the future of gaming), it's fascinating. Along with the "Milo" demo video, it's like a more advanced version of Apple's Knowledge Navigator vision of human-computer interaction. We'll see if it's any closer to reality than that 20-year old concept.

Game-wise, the "full body" fighting looks great, the facial and voice recognition is very cool. Some of the zero-controller games and interactions (like the racecar example) look contrived. I don't think I'd want to sit there for ten minutes so I can play pit crew and change tires for five seconds, nor would I want to keep my hands in a driving position for an extended time. There's only so much "real life experience" I want while relaxing.

Another option from foodie friends for quality beef.

If, after reading about the Contents of Fast Food, you feel grinding your own burgers is better, some foodie friends have told me this is a great way to get high-quality meats. The downside for me is I've never liked the taste of grass-fed beef, but that’s a matter of personal taste.

Interesting research into the contents of various burgers ("Approximately half of their weight is made up of water"). Unfortunately, it doesn't provide any useful conclusions (like maybe "higher quality meat is better") or whether fast food burgers are unique in their composition. Scientifically investigated, no actionable conclusions.

The Annals of Diagnostic Pathology is peer reviewed.

I particularly like “Never Mind”.